The Paper Town Hall from Cut-Out Town

Directions for the Town Hall. Cut around the outlines. Fold on dotted lines,
tuck tabs inside and where shown paste together as drawn in the above "model" sketch.

       Well, just when I thought that I had found all of these little village templates, out crops another one! Searching newspapers is a tedious process, even for an archivist! But here is the Town Hall; better late than never. I think it is the last of the series? I've cleaned it up, folks. Don't forget to enlarge it as much as possible before printing it out.

The District School of Cut-Out Town

      Cut-out on heavy black line, fold on all dotted lines, then paste parts marked XX to parts marked X and you will have a little school with bell tower and brick chimney.

On the way to Cut-Out Corners, 

Where the road of Glueville winds,

Stands the little district schoolhouse,

Painted white, with neat green blinds.

Every day the paper children,

With their books and dinner pail,

Trot along the paper highway-

Sun or rain, they never fail!

And Miss Paperdoll, schoolmistress,

Hears them say their grammar rule

With arithmetic and spelling-

Then they're almost through with school

Now, however, it is recess-

In the playground they all run-

All excepting Dick and Flossie

On the doorstep in the sun.

Let us cut the school out, youngster,

Bring the paste-and now let's see

What a charming little schoolhouse

Cut-Out Corners school will be.

Little Factory from Cut-Out Town

      Cut out on all heavy black lines, fold on all dotted lines and past X to XX. Roll and paste the smokestacks.

In the little town of Cut-Out

Is a factory of toys,

Where the make all kinds of cut-outs

For newspaper girls and boys.

Messrs, Paper, Glue & Scissors

Drive a very thriving trade,

And the paper toys they make there

Are the nicest that are made.

Here within this tall, plain building

With its smokestacks round and high

You hear the snip of scissors

While the busy moments fly.

And at sundown when the sunshine

Gilds the window glass so bright

You can see the Cut-Out workmen

Going home to spend the night.

Let's pretend that you're a workman

In the factory's employ,

Messrs Paper, Glue & Scissors

Bid you make this cut-out toy.

Mr. Roger's Neighborhood Resources

      Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (often shortened to simply Mister Rogers) is an American children's television series that was created and hosted by namesake Fred Rogers. The series originated in 1963 as "Misterogers" on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) television and was later debuted in 1966 as Mister Rogers' Neighborhood on EEN, followed by its US network debut on February 19, 1968, and it aired on NET and its successor, PBS, until August 31, 2001. The series is aimed primarily at preschool ages 2 to 5, but has been stated by PBS as "appropriate for all ages". Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA public broadcaster WQED and Rogers' non-profit production company Family Communications, Inc.; previously known as Small World Enterprises prior to 1971, the company was renamed The Fred Rogers Company after Rogers' death. Read more . . .

About Mr. Rogers General Media:

• PBS Kids: Official Site
• The Fred M. Rogers Center
• The Fred Rogers Company (formerly known as Family Communications)
• Kit and Morgan Benson (Feb 27, 2003). "Fred Rogers". Educator, Television Show Host. Find a Grave. Retrieved Aug 18, 2011.
• Fred Rogers Interview at Archive of American Television
• The Music of Mister Rogers -Pittsburgh Music History

Activities & Lesson Plans Inspired by 'Mr. Roger's Nieghborhood': 

• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiered in 1967
• Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Educational Outreach Elements

Reviews & Books:

• Mister Rogers' website named one of the best
• New book applies Mr. Rogers' teachings to workplace; birthday celebrations scheduled

Cut and Paste Paper Pueblos

These paper pictures of pueblos were made by kindergarteners. They learned about how some indigenous people built their homes and why their homes were appropriate for the environment in which they lived.

Above is a photograph taken of a Zuni pueblo in 1873,
Below is a photograph of a Kiva and surrounding
pueblos taken in Taos New Mexico in 1920.

      Pueblos are modern and ancient communities of Native Americans in the Southwestern United States of America. The first Spanish explorers of the Southwest used this term to describe the communities housed in apartment-like structures built of stone, adobe mud, and other local material. These structures were usually multi-storeyed buildings surrounding an open plaza. They were occupied by hundreds to thousands of Pueblo people.

      The Pueblo people are a Native American people in the Southwestern United States. Their traditional economy is based on agriculture and trade. When first encountered by the Spanish in the 16th century, they were living in villages that the Spanish called pueblos, meaning "towns". Of the 21 Pueblos that exist today, Taos, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi are the best-known. The main Pueblos are located primarily in New Mexico and Arizona.

      Adobe (pron.: /əˈdoʊbi/, UK /əˈdoʊb/; Arabic: الطوب) is a natural building material made from sand, clay, water, and some kind of fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, and/or manure), which the builders shape into bricks (using frames) and dry in the sun. Adobe buildings are similar to cob and mudbrick buildings. Adobe structures are extremely durable, and account for some of the oldest existing buildings in the world. In hot climates, compared with wooden buildings, adobe buildings offer significant advantages due to their greater thermal mass, but they are known to be particularly susceptible to earthquake damage.

      Buildings made of sun-dried earth are common in West Asia, North Africa, West Africa, South America, southwestern North America, Spain (usually in the Mudéjar style), Eastern Europe and East Anglia, particularly Norfolk, known as 'clay lump. Adobe had been in use by indigenous peoples of the Americas in the Southwestern United States, Mesoamerica, and the Andean region of South America for several thousand years, although often substantial amounts of stone are used in the walls of Pueblo buildings. (Also, the Pueblo people built their adobe structures with handsful or basketsful of adobe, until the Spanish introduced them to the making of bricks.) Adobe brickmaking was used in Spain starting by the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, from the eighth century B.C. on. Its wide use can be attributed to its simplicity of design and manufacture, and the economy of creating it.

      A distinction is sometimes made between the smaller adobes, which are about the size of ordinary baked bricks, and the larger adobines, some of which may be one to two yards (1–2 m) long.

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• Pueblo de Taos from National Geographic
• Research Starters: Anasazi and Pueblo Indians
• Pueblo Indian History for Kids

Favela Painting

Rocinha is the largest hill favela in Rio de Janeiro.
Although favelas are found in urban areas throughout Brazil,
 many of the more famous ones exist in Rio —
a widely photographed city

      A favela (Portuguese pronunciation: [faˈvɛlɐ]) is the term for a shanty town in Brazil, most often within urban areas. The first favelas appeared in late 19th century and built by soldiers with nowhere to live. Some of the first settlements were called bairros africanos (African neighbourhoods). This was the place where former slaves with no land ownership and no options for work lived. Over the years, many former black slaves moved in.

      Even before the first favela came into being, poor citizens were pushed away from the city and forced to live in the far suburbs. However, most modern favelas appeared in the 1970s due to rural exodus, when many people left rural areas of Brazil and moved to cities. Without finding a place to live, many people ended up in a favela. Census data released in December 2011 by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) shows that in 2010, about 6 percent of the population lived in slums in Brazil. This means that 11.4 million of the 190 million people that lived in the country resided in areas of irregular occupation definable by lack of public services or urbanization, referred to by the IBGE as "subnormal agglomerations".

      The people who live in favelas are known as Moradores da favela, or pejoratively as favelados. Favelas are associated with extreme poverty. Brazil's favelas can be seen as the result of the unequal distribution of wealth in the country. Brazil is one of the most economically unequal countries in the world with the top 10 percent of its population earning 50 percent of the national income and about 8.5 percent of all people living below the poverty line.

      The Brazilian government has made several attempts in the 20th century to improve the nation's problem of urban poverty. One way was by the eradication of the favelas and favela dwellers that occurred during the 1970s while Brazil was under military governance. These favela eradication programs forcibly removed over 100,000 residents and placed them in public housing projects or back to the rural areas that many emigrated from. Another attempt to deal with urban poverty came by way of gentrification. The government sought to upgrade the favelas and integrate them into the inner city with the newly urbanized upper-middle class. As these "upgraded favelas" became more stable, they began to attract members of the lower-middle class pushing the former favela dwellers onto the streets or outside of the urban center and into the suburbs further away from opportunity and economic advancement. For example: in Rio de Janeiro, the vast majority of the homeless population is black, and part of that can be attributed to favela gentrification and displacement of those in extreme poverty.

           

WWW.FAVELAPAINTING.COM ~ The Favela Painting project was founded in 2005 by Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn. Go to our site or favela painting on facebook. Special thanks to Rob Admiraal who designed Rio Cruzeiro with us. Thank you Rogier Postma for making ths infomercial happen, Jesse Koolhaas for soundtrack, Jelle de Boer for audio mixing, Ralph de Haan and Hazaza for postproduction and Fernanda Clemente for translations.

The following are the "favela" painting proposals designed by local fifth graders in our community.

Draw An Animal Hospital

      Doodling an animal hospital will be tricky if you don't know how to draw particular medical equipment. I've included, at the bottom of this post, some basic visual depictions of those things found in a human hospital for this drawing project. The Betty Boop video above portrays animals with human characteristics. This idea is called anthropomorphism.

      According to Wikipedia, "Anthropomorphism or personification is any attribution of human characteristics (or characteristics assumed to belong only to humans) to other animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities. The term was coined in the mid 1700s. Examples include animals and plants and forces of nature such as winds, rain or the sun depicted as creatures with human motivations, and/or the abilities to reason and converse. The term derives from the combination of the Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos), "human" and μορφή (morphē), "shape" or "form"

      This doodle exercise should depict animals as patients inside of a hospital of sorts. You can also include humans or animals as the doctors and nurses.

Think about the uniforms your doctors and nurses will need to be wearing.

Things seen inside of a hospital.

A Treehouse Collage

On the left, a treehouse collage by my youngest child made way back when...
On the right, one of my favorite children's books by Doris Burn.
A project designed around these two ideas would be perfect.

      Doris "Doe" Wernstedt Burn (April 24, 1923 – March 9, 2011) was an American children's book author and illustrator. She lived most of her life on Waldron Island in the San Juan Islands archipelago of Washington. Her book illustrations, mostly done between 1965 and 1971, consist of absorbingly detailed line drawings, often of children matter-of-factly doing extraordinary things.

      Burn was born in Portland, Oregon to explorer, mountaineer and United States Forest Service worker Lage Wernstedt and his wife Adele. The family resided on Guemes Island near Anacortes. After being interviewed by writer June Burn for the Bellingham Herald, Mr. Wernstedt and his family became friends of the Burns and built a summer cabin near theirs on Waldron, a small island without ferry service.

Doris Burn at her home in
Guemes Island, WA

      Burn attended the University of Oregon and the University of Hawaii, and graduated from the University of Washington. She married South (Bob) Burn after World War II and the couple made their home on Waldron Island. She had four children, whom she taught for one year on Guemes Island's one-room schoolhouse. Burn separated from her husband, but they remained lifelong friends and neighbors.

      Burn worked on her meticulous illustrations in the evenings, in "a small cabin where she spends the day at work after chopping enough wood to keep the fire going through the day, hauling two buckets of water from the pump for washing brushes and pens and brewing 'a perpetual pot of tea'". Waldron Island was without electricity, telephone service, running water or merchants. All of her goods and supplies were brought by boat from the mainland.

      In 1956 Burn took a portfolio of illustrations to publishers in New York and was encouraged to continue working. Her children remember her working late nights by lantern-light with the fireplace burning down to embers.

      Doe's oldest son, Mark Nathaniel Burn, was the inspiration for her first book, Andrew Henry's Meadow (1965), the story of a boy who, ignored by his family, builds a retreat for himself in a nearby meadow. He is soon joined by other children for whom he also builds houses, tailored to their interests and hobbies. Andrew Henry's Meadow won the Washington Governor's Art Award and was a Weekly Reader book club selection. It was reissued in a 40th anniversary edition by San Juan Publishing in 2005. She went on to write two other works, The Summerfolk and The Tale of Lazy Lizard Canyon, and illustrated eight others.

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A similar watercolor assignment exploring the treehouse theme.

Historic Paper Buildings at Greenfield Village

I found these paper scale model buildings
at a flee market.

      The Henry Ford (also known as the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, and more formally as the Edison Institute) is a large indoor and outdoor history museum complex and a National Historic Landmark in the Metro Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, USA. Named for its founder, the noted automobile industrialist Henry Ford, and based on his desire to preserve items of historical significance and portray the Industrial Revolution, the property houses a vast array of famous homes, machinery, exhibits, and Americana. The collection contains many rare exhibits including John F. Kennedy's presidential limousine, Abraham Lincoln's chair from Ford's Theatre, Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright Brothers' bicycle shop, and the Rosa Parks bus.

      Henry Ford said of his museum:

"I am collecting the history of our people as written into things their hands made and used.... When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived, and that, I think, is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition...^"

      The Henry Ford is the largest indoor-outdoor museum complex in America. Patrons enter at the gate, passing by the Josephine Ford Memorial Fountain and Benson Ford Research Center. Nearly one hundred historical buildings were moved to the property from their original locations and arranged in a "village" setting. The museum's intent is to show how Americans lived and worked since the founding of the country. The Village includes buildings from the 17th century to the present, many of which are staffed by costumed interpreters who conduct period tasks like farming, sewing and cooking. A collection of craft buildings such as pottery, glass-blowing, and tin shops provide demonstrations while producing materials used in the Village and for sale. Greenfield Village has 240 acres (970,000 m²) of land of which only 90 acres (360,000 m²) are used for the attraction, the rest being forest, river and extra pasture for the sheep and horses.

• Noah Webster's Connecticut home
• the Wright brothers' bicycle shop and home from Dayton, Ohio
• A replica of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory complex from New Jersey
• Henry Ford's birthplace
• Henry Ford's prototype garage where he built the Ford Quadricycle
• Harvey Firestone family farm from Columbiana, Ohio
• the Logan County, Illinois courthouse where Abraham Lincoln practiced law
• William Holmes McGuffey's birthplace
• Luther Burbank's office

Craft Little Houses from Milk Cartons

I'm setting up the craft supply table. I collected the cartons from the children during their snack time and washed these thoroughly in hot soapy water a week in advance. Then I stapled them shut so that students wouldn't be preoccupied with dismantling them themselves. I have some little boys who are easily distracted during art projects and so I've learned what not to give them in order to avoid their tendencies.

Above is my teacher's sample of this popular craft project.

      As some of you know, I teach art, whenever I can, to a large group of sixty-five students, grades k-5th during an after school program. It is difficult to choose projects that appeal to children ranging from five years to eleven. Usually I resort to including multiple projects during this time so that all of the students will enjoy their indoor activity time. This project, however, was very popular with all of the children.

      First, I made a template for a paper template using an original dismantled milk carton. Then I printed out enough of these for my students to cut out and trace around onto construction paper. The students then decorated these templates before gluing them onto their clean, dry milk carton. I also showed them how to draw a landscape for their house on a separate sheet of construction paper. We discussed what the terms architecture and landscape mean during the course of our project.

Cute Little Paper Villages: Mega List

      I've included a listing here of those paper houses, cities or village ideas experimented with and created by a wide variety of artists. Get inspired here. There are endless possibilities when designing your own paper village.

More Links To Little Paper Villages Everywhere:

1. Paper villages for Christmas trees
2. Winter Paper Village
3. Glitter Houses from Wyldhare's Hollow
4. Crystal Cities by Rob Dunlavey
5. Moldy Miniature Homes Left to Decay
6. Assemblage Houses
7. Print a Paper House from Enchanted Learning
8. Little Paper Houses by Dianne Faw
9. Round house village by even cleveland
10. A Paper Craft Castle On the Ocean
11. Winter-Time Paper House Freebie
12. Little Church from Cut-Out Town
13. paper houses from mighty mag
14. "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas" 
15. Cottage Town: Potted Plants Turned Into a Mini Village!
16. Bird house treat box
17. Tutorial: Glitter House
18. Tiny paper doll houses from "Non Dairy Diary" here and here and here and here
19. The Toy Maker's Habitat for Humanity House
20. Bath Paper Houses
21. Wonderful paper city by joel! 
22. Little house from Cut-Out Town
23. DLTK 3D house templates
24. How to decorate glitter houses
25. Fall cottage house by Maya Road and a Christmas cottage here
26. Charming house ornament by Becca
27. A fantastic haunted manor by Ravensblight
28. Midget & Giant by Ryuji Nakamura
29. Little houses for you and me
30. Paper Lantern Houses
31. Tiny Paper Village by Karin Corbin
32. Persian Palace accordion cut from Mini-eco
33. All The Buildings in New York by James Gulliver Hancock 
34. A Christmas House from Holly Hanks
35. Haunted House Window card
36. Glitter house gift box
37. building a putz house
38. autumn shoofly
39. Pop-up house card by Becca 
40. City Lights
41. The White House Paper Model
42. circus tent
43. Fairy houses from jugs (Not paper, but oh so cute!) 
44. Building The Little Charmer
45. Shoe box apartment house
46. Pop-Up paper village
47. Make a recycled cardboard tube Christmas village
48. Cereal Box House Tutorial 
49. Paper Village - Inn
50. Paper Mache' Christmas Cottages
51. A bird house box by Nichole Heady
52. Mel Stampz simply charming winter village diorama
53. Printable Putz from About.com
54. Created by Hand Challenge: house book
55. Wintertime paper village
56. crowns and castles
57. A little house box
58. See our family's micca dusted cardboard houses from Japan...

Little Church from Cut-Out Town

First cut out the main body of the church along the heavy black outline. Then fold on all dotted lines and paste together. Next cut out the tower and paste together after folding. Then paste XX to X.

Paper dolls on Sunday go

To this little church, just so!

Two by two, just as they should.

Paper dollies are quite good!

Cut the little church out, dear.

On the outside black lines here.

Fold on all the dotted spaces,

Paste the flaps in proper places.

Little Cut-Out Town you see,

Is as good as good can be;

Little girls and little boys,

Learn this text of cut-out toys.

Design and Poem by E. Patten Beard.

The Little House From Cut-Out Town

      Cut out on black lines around the edges; fold on all dotted lines and paste X to XX. You will then have the house where Jan lived.

The Little House From Cut-Out Town was designed by E. Patten Beard.

Cut-Out Town is made of paper:

Paper houses, paper trees,

Paper flowers grown in boxes

In the windows--where you please

Cut-Out Town is very pleasant;

Paper dolls the whole long day

Play together in the houses

Paper games and paper play

Hurry! Hurry with the scissors!

Bring the gluepot or the paste

And we'll make the house of paper-

Tommy, here, is quite in haste!

Cut along the black lines folding 

Where the dotted lines all run,

Stick the side flaps--Ah! you have it!

There, the Cut-Out House is done!

By E. Patten Beard